1512 posts tagged with "PaaS"
Platform-as-a-Service tooling, economics, and self-hosted alternatives
The Self-Hosted LLM Gateway Pattern: How Mantis and LiteLLM Turn Model Routing Into a $10 Container
Self-hosted gateways like Mantis and LiteLLM run model routing, fallback, and cost tracking as a $10 container beside your apps — at 100M tokens the 5.5% managed fee costs 3x more and still routes your prompts through a third party.
The 2026 Mid-Year Repricing Ledger: Every Layer of Your Rented Stack Just Moved at Once
Render, Netlify, Vercel, Fly.io, Docker Hub, Hetzner and OVHcloud all repriced in H1 2026. One table compares every change — with percentages and who pays — and why simultaneous repricing makes owning your stack the only predictable variable.
Netlify Killed the Seat Tax: What Two PaaS Giants Ditching Per-Seat Fees in Nine Days Says About Who Pays for Team Size
Netlify killed per-seat pricing on April 14, 2026 — nine days before Render's April 23 workspace overhaul did the same. Why two VC-backed PaaS vendors walked away from the seat tax in the same month, what it costs at 1, 5, 20 seats, and why a self-hosted fleet was never billed for team size in the first place.
OVHcloud and Hetzner Both Raised Prices in 2026: What the Budget EU Squeeze Means for Your Self-Hosted Fleet
OVHcloud and Hetzner both repriced in 2026 on the same DRAM shock — OVHcloud 9-11% annually through 2028, Hetzner 37% then up to 176% on CCX/CPX. A recomputed Cluster API fleet model and what diversifying providers truly costs.
Your PaaS Bill Lied in June 2026: What Railway, Render, Fly.io and Vercel Actually Cost With Egress, Cold Starts, and the 127x Spread
A June 2026 audit priced the same API, worker, Postgres, and 200 GB egress workload across Railway, Render, Fly.io, and Vercel and found a 5x bill spread, 127x once hidden egress and billing lines are counted. The invoice, the hidden lines that create it, and what the same stack costs on a flat-rate Hetzner box.
PaaS by Default, Kubernetes the Exception: What the 2026 Consensus Flip Gets Right — and What It Still Gets Wrong
Hacker News in 2026 flipped a decade of advice: PaaS should be the default, Kubernetes the exception. The median-team insight is correct — but the single-box framing is a false binary. A git-push PaaS built on Cluster API gives you the PaaS surface without the one-machine ceiling.
Render Chose Boring on Purpose: What a $1.5B PaaS Selling Predictability Says About What Teams Actually Wanted
Render hit a $1.5B valuation and then made its product more boring — flat $25 and $499 workspace fees, bandwidth cut to 5 GB, compute tiers unchanged. Why the most predictable bill won and what the same workload costs when you own the hardware instead of renting the predictability.
Sevalla Charges $160 for 4 vCPU/8 GB on GKE: What the Same Box Costs on Render, Fly.io, Railway — and Flat-Rate Hetzner
Back4App's February 2026 guide prices Sevalla at $160/month for 4 vCPU/8 GB on GKE. The same always-on workload costs $175 on Render Pro Plus, ~$100 on Fly.io and Railway metered, and $18–$40 flat on Hetzner with 20 TB included — five invoices for one box, priced line by line.
UpCloud's €3 Starter Plans Undercut Post-Hike Hetzner: What a Second EU Provider Actually Buys Your Node Pool
UpCloud's €3 Starter plans land below Hetzner's twice-repriced entry tier in May 2026. A tabled price, region, and Cluster API readiness comparison of what a second Finnish-EU provider actually buys a fleet that runs on owned hardware.